CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s interview with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was derailed late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning on night two of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago by anti-Israel hecklers. The Late Show host struggled as he sought to control the unruly behavior, but also tried to appease them by noting Pelosi’s answers were “unsatisfying to some people” as he did not realize his and Pelosi’s desire for a two-state solution is not what the hecklers really want.
Colbert began with a typical softball that had nothing to do with Israel, “Now, last night, last night you were there when President Biden told the country, ‘America, I gave my best to you.’ You've known this man for 50 years. How emotional of a moment was that for you?”
After Pelosi gave her ode to Biden, Colbert asked what she thought of people claiming she was the one that led the charge to dump Biden. Pelosi did everything she could to not answer the question, and that’s when the disruptions began, “Let's say this, what's really important about what happened [Shouting] is what comes next, what comes next. What comes next is we're going to elect Kamala Harris president of the United States. [Shouting] It's going to be a great, great election. [Shouting].”
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